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, especially in the realm of the infinite, but we certainly are not required to believe that the infinite is divisible, for we immediately see that it cannot, in the very nature of the case, be true. God is one, complete and indivisible. There cannot exist three Gods and three Lords, thus three Infinites. Any creed which so states is untrue, it makes no difference what sanctity it has acquired from long acceptance.

If asked, not only will every clergyman of today, but also every Christian, declare most solemnly that he personally believes in only one God. If that is the case, why are such creeds still permitted to exist as nominal fundamentals of the Christian Church?

It is not necessary, perhaps, to add the testimony of Scripture to refute such confusing, contradictory, and rationally impossible statements, yet it is worth while to recall that both in the New Testament and the Old we ﬁnd it written:

"Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God is one Lord." (Deut. 6:4; also Mark 12:29.)

And again: "I am Jehovah, and there is none else, there is no God beside me." (Isa. 45:5.)

And again: "Am not I Jehovah? and there is no God else beside Me." (Isa. 45:21.)